Battle of Chusto-Talasah

This Battle site is 9 miles NE., SE at the caving banks bend on bird creek. Here Dec 9, 1861 Opothleyahola's Union Indians forced the retreat of Col. D.H. Cooper's Confederate troops. Marker sponsored by the Tulsa Historical Society.

Marker is ...

A Friend Forever

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A FRIEND FOREVER

“I appeal to you because I can to no other with so much confidence,” Lincoln said to Doctor William H. Fithian, August 15, 1860. He was asking for Fithian’s assistance in a political matter.

After both were elected ...

Site of Early Meeting House

1630 - 1930

The original meetinghouse of the First Church in Newton was built in this burying ground in 1660. The first pastor was John Eliot, Jr., son of the Apostle to the Indians.

Marker is on Center Street just from Cotton ...

Faulkner Homestead

1630 - 1930

Site of garrison house built before 1700. Opposite, Ammi Ruhamah Faulkner had his saw and grist mill and woolen mill in 1735.

Marker is on High Street (Massachusetts Route 27) just from Main Street (Local Route .01), on the ...

Chico Forestry Station and Nursery

In 1888, the State Board of Forestry established an experimental forestry station and nursery, a companion to the Santa Monica Station established in 1882. The two were the first such stations in the nation. Exotic and native trees were tested ...

First Town Center

1630 - 1930

Site of first meetinghouse and center of settlement of the Sudbury Plantation, 1638.

Marker is on Old Sudbury Road (Massachusetts Route 27), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Sudbury Fight

1630 - 1930

One-quarter mile north took place the Sudbury Fight with King Philip's Indians on April 21, 1676. Captain Samuel Wadsworth fell with twenty-eight of his men; their monument stands in the burying ground.

Marker is at the intersection of Boston ...

LaFayette - Jackson Township Civil War Memorial

and Veterans Memorial Garden

Erected 1903 by the

Citizens of Jackson Tp. and

Dedicated to the

Memory of her soldiers of

1861. - 1865.

[Grand Army of the Republic emblem]

Ah! never shall the land forget.

How flowed the life blood of her brave

Gushed warm with hope and ...

Settlement of Savannah

On January 18,1733, the British galley Anne arrived in Charleston, South Carolina with James Oglethorpe, 144 "sober, moral, and industrious" colonists and provisions to build a new colony south of the Savannah River in Georgia. While the colonists rested in ...

Fairbanks House

1630 - 1930

Oldest house in Dedham, a part of it built about 1636. Homestead of Jonathan Fairbanks, who, with his sons John, George, and Jonathan, Junior, signed the Dedham Covenant September 10, 1636. Ancestral home of the late Vice- President ...